Obama winning the war waged against voter rights

9:58 PM,
Jan. 28, 2014

Written by

dewayne wickham

President Obama is winning this war. I'm not talking about the conflict in Afghanistan, that distant fight against what remains of Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization and the Taliban.

No, the war in which Obama has scored a major victory is over voting rights. Obama scored this domestic victory in an unusual way: He put Republican Benjamin Ginsberg at the head of his effort to beat back attempts to restrict the voting rights of people mostly thought to be Democrats.

Last week, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, with Ginsburg as co-chair, issued a report advancing ...